 Taxation follows that, and in its train, wretchedness •"vl oppression. ?o!ne men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a...  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Stran 640avtor: Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | John Giffin Thompson - 1927 - 710 strani
...with which some men look at constitutions. "They ascribe to the men of the preceding age," he says, "a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment I know that age well ; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was... | |
 | Frank Abbott Magruder - 1928 - 610 strani
...not be changed, but Thomas Jefferson expresses the contrary view in ths following words: "Some men ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more...what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age [of the Revolution] well. I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It... | |
 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - 1928 - 652 strani
...duty of election." Jefferson did not share in the growing worship of the Constitution. He did not ' ' look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence...them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be "Compare Condorcet's doctrine that no generation can bind its successor, *ad Paine 's belief in the... | |
 | 1920 - 782 strani
...lands; its income, better than rents; its dignity, higher than ancestral acres.—Sam'l F. Miller. "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant—too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1978 - 1290 strani
...the end of his long and illustrious career, Thomas Jefferson put the same point in this way : "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew this age well ; I belonged to it, and labored 'with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very... | |
 | Martin Edelman - 1984 - 416 strani
...beginning of this change was: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and they deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.... | |
 | Thomas R. Cole - 1987 - 324 strani
...invoked during congressional debate over the 1983 Social Security amendments, are illuminating: Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well. ... It was very like the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 1312 strani
...them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the A-4 3761 preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose...and labored with it. It deserved well of its country . . . But I Know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 1346 strani
...stronger central government. You will adopt Aristotle's stance on flexibility of laws, when you say: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdoia more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I... | |
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